Music Together at Cabrillo and Beyond

a dad sent me this picture of his Jett at the Cabrillo music festival. He thinks Music Together is awesome. Don't we all?

Here's a little history about Music Together and how this awesome program began.

The first classes for children and parents were held in suburban Philadelphia in 1987. This
followed a period of development by the Center for Music and Young Children® (CMYC),
founded by Mr. Guilmartin in 1985 in Princeton, New Jersey. CMYC continues to sponsor ongoing
research and development in early childhood music and movement and operates a lab school
serving over one thousand local families each year.

Since 1989, Music Together has sponsored intensive teacher trainings in an effort to make the
curriculum available to those who want a developmentally valid approach to early childhood
music, coupled with songs and activities that are fun and musically rich. Music Together now
annually sponsors over fifty international three-day trainings, participates in national and
international conferences, and publishes in professional journals. Music Together’s rapidly
expanding outreach initiatives include a program for teenage mothers and a major preschool
development program for Head Start and other preschool populations.

Lizz Anderson tells her story of how Music Together became such an important part of her life

I first heard about Music Together in 1994 from Deanna DeCampos, an old high school friend of mine. She was living in New York City and found the program when she was looking for something fun to do with her toddler, who is now 17! She told me about Music Together when my son Daniel was 6 months old and at that point the program was only offered in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. Music Together brought so much music making joy into my family's life that I agreed with Deanna - our community would love Music Together!

Because of Deanna's support and my son Daniel's overwhelming response, we've had Music Together in our community since 1996! Ours was the first community on the West Coast to offer the Music Together program and from the very beginning children and adults have responded enthusiastically. And why not? It's simply the best early childhood program out there.

Even though he's 15 years old, Daniel and I still make music together all the time. It's the foundation for the musical soundtrack of our lives.

The photo is from our 10th Anniversary Party in 1996. I'm in pink and Daniel, in blue, is sitting on my lap for "Ridin' in the Car"!